Ellen Kuhl named director of Stanford Bio-X
March 29, 2024 - Stanford News
Kuhl aims to continue Bio-X’s legacy of facilitating multidisciplinary fundamental research and innovation.
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members and fellows are generating scientific advances that expand our understanding of how the body works and will ultimately improve human health. These news stories and press releases describe some of those breakthroughs.
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Karl Deisseroth wins 4 million euros Fresenius Research Prize
May 31, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist, bioengineer and Bio-X affiliated faculty member Karl Deisseroth will be honored for three distinct contributions to the medical field: optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry and research into depression. -
Technique pinpoints the ‘partners in crime’ of cancer genes
May 31, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Targeting backup biological pathways used by cancers can lead to more efficient drug development and less-toxic therapies. Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Ravi Majeti, David Dill, and Erinn Rankin have developed a new way to identify these pathways. -
Fitness trackers accurately measure heart rate but not calories burned
May 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research from Bio-X affiliates Euan Ashley and Trevor Hastie and Bio-X Fellow Anna Shcherbina into the accuracy of 7 wristband activity monitors showed that 6 out of 7 measured heart rate within 5%, but none measured energy expenditure well. -
Scientists make strides in hunt for genetic causes of heart disease
May 22, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford cardiologist Tim Assimes and a consortium of scientists including Bio-X affiliate Tom Quertermous pinpointed 15 newly identified genomic regions associated with heart disease. -
Stanford scholars, researchers discuss key ethical questions self-driving cars present
May 22, 2017 - Stanford News
Self-driving technology presents ethical challenges and questions. Many at Stanford tackling this issue, including Bio-X affiliate Margaret Levi, offer perspectives. -
How computers are learning to understand language
May 22, 2017 - Stanford Engineering
Bio-X affiliate Chris Manning discusses the evolution of computational linguistics and where it's headed next. He was recently named the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning. -
‘Special K’ finds market as costly off-label option to treat mental disorders
May 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
As research from Bio-X affiliate Alan Schatzberg and others shows that the hallucinogen is a potentially powerful treatment for intractable mental disorders, and academics continue to debate its safety, private clinics offer the drug to patients now. -
Stanford scientists use nanotechnology to boost the performance of a key industrial catalyst
May 18, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Robert Sinclair finds that nanoscale stretching or compressing boosts the performance of ceria, a material used in catalytic converters and clean-energy tech. -
Price of protection: Immune-gene version, great at combating leprosy, is not without drawbacks
May 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Peter Parham examined a particular version of a gene which encodes for an important cell-surface protein that’s a key player in our immune response. -
Don’t think of heart disease as inevitable, Stanford expert says
May 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Joshua Knowles argues that although many treat heart disease as though it is inevitable, this is not the case. -
Cancer therapy may work in unexpected way
May 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
An antibody to the cell receptor PD-1 may launch a two-pronged assault on cancer by initiating attacks by both T cells and macrophages, a Stanford study from Bio-X affiliate Irv Weissman has found. -
Genetic patterns could aid scientists and police, but raise privacy concerns, Stanford scientists say
May 15, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Noah Rosenberg finds that new way of connecting distinct sets of DNA markers could help police and scientists, but it may raise privacy concerns as well. -
A look at cancer epigenetics
May 11, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Howard Chang is the co-creator of “ATAC-seq” (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high throughput sequencing), a next-generation test for scanning DNA to assess which of its genes are activated. -
Stanford researchers develop crowdsourcing software to convene rapid, on-demand 'flash organizations'
May 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Michael Bernstein's research addresses flash organizations, which enable anyone to assemble an organization and pursue complex, open-ended goals. -
Stanford engineers create experimental technology to monitor and maintain drug levels in the body
May 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Technology from Bio-X affiliate H. Tom Soh can monitor and maintain the drug levels in animals' bloodstreams, which could help deliver optimal doses of life-saving drugs. -
Team brings quantum computing closer to reality with new materials
May 9, 2017 - Stanford News
Quantum computing could outsmart current computing if scientists figure out how to make it practical. Bio-X affiliates Jelena Vuckovic, Nicholas Melosh, and Steve Chu are investigating new materials that could become the basis for such an advance. -
Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky ponders the best and worst of us, plus free will
May 8, 2017 - Stanford News
With the publication of his latest book, Bio-X affiliate Robert Sapolsky tackles the best and worst of human behavior and the nature of justice in the absence of free will. -
Scientists crowdsource autism data to learn where resource gaps exist
May 8, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford scientists including Bio-X affiliate Dennis Wall have launched a crowdsourcing project to pinpoint areas across the globe that have few autism experts, leading to delayed care for kids who live there, and to find ways to fill them. -
Stanford study provides new understanding of breast growth disorders
May 4, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Philip Beachy and Michael Clarke have discovered a new way that the GLI2 gene impacts breast development: they found that GLI2 activity helps control mammary stem cells in mice. -
Faculty and students at Stanford argue for increased study of games and interactive media
May 3, 2017 - Stanford News
Faculty, staff and students Bio-X affiliates Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Dan Schwartz, are pushing to embrace and pursue the study of games and interactive media. -
Stanford researchers analyze what a warming planet means for mosquito-borne diseases
May 3, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Erin Mordecai finds that the ideal temperature for the spread of mosquito-born diseases is 29 degrees C, which could help predict disease outbreaks. -
5 Questions: Samuel So on stamping out viral hepatitis in the U.S.
May 3, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Liver disease expert, leading anti-hepatitis campaigner, and Bio-X affiliate Samuel So recently discussed what it will take to rub out viral hepatitis, which causes more than 20,000 U.S. deaths annually. -
Flexible, organic and biodegradable: Stanford researchers develop new wave of electronics
May 1, 2017 - Stanford News
A semiconductor developed by researchers under Bio-X affiliate Zhenan Bao, including 2013 Bio-X Fellow Allister McGuire, is as flexible as skin and easily degradable. -
Scientists assemble working human forebrain circuits in a lab dish
April 26, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Sergiu Pasca, John Huguenard, Joachim Hallmayer, Jonathan Bernstein, and Lars Steinmetz fused two stem-cell-derived neural spheroids and watched as the two sets of neurons migrated and connected. -
How doctors are battling “an unknown enemy”
April 26, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Euan Ashley is one of the principal investigators at the Stanford site of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), a national network created to diagnose very rare diseases. -
Scientists test links between extreme weather and climate change
April 24, 2017 - Stanford News
A new four-step “framework” from researchers including Bio-X affiliate Bala Rajaratnam aims to test the contribution of climate change to record-setting extreme weather events. -
Moving toward multi-pronged treatment for the worst childhood brain tumor
April 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
New research from Bio-X affiliates Michelle Monje and Joanna Wysocka suggests two potential drug targets for the pediatric brain tumor diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. -
Stanford researchers use molecular evidence to pinpoint when mammals became nocturnal
April 20, 2017 - Stanford News
In research by Bio-X affiliate Elizabeth Hadly, new genetic evidence suggests that early mammals had good night-time vision, adding to fossil and behavioral studies. -
Stanford researchers use color-coding to pinpoint locations of gut-bacterial strains
April 20, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Justin Sonnenburg has been able to visualize multiple bacterial strains in lab mice’s gut by making them express unique combinations of fluorescent proteins. -
Stanford undergrads win Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for work combating antibiotic resistance
April 19, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford undergrads including 2016 Bio-X USRP participant Zachary Rosenthal win a national prize for their work on an antibiotic to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria.